Lovecraft Unbound 2nd EditionThe stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1937 have shaped modern horror more than any other author in the last two centuries: the shambling god Cthulhu, and the other deities of the Elder Things, the Outer Gods, and the Great Old Ones, and Herbert West, Reanimator, a doctor who unlocked the secrets of life and death at a terrible cost. In Lovecraft Unbound, more than twenty of today's most prominent writers of literature and dark fantasy tell stories set in or inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION by Ellen Dallow | 9 |
THE CREVASSE by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud | 31 |
4 SINCERELY PETRIFIED by Anna Tambour | 73 |
the TENDERNESS of JACKALS by Amanda Downum | 85 |
SIGHT UNSEEN by Joel Lane | 99 |
II COLD WATER SURVIVAL by Holly Phillips | 139 |
16I HOUSES UNDER THE SEA by Caitlín R Kiernan | 195 |
LENG by Marc Laidlaw | 213 |
IN THE BLACK MILL by Michael Chabon | 239 |
onE DAY soon by Lavie Tidhar | 267 |
CoMMENCEMENT by Joyce Carol Oates | 277 |
VERNON DRIVING by Simon Kurt Unsworth | 305 |
4o9 THAT OF WHICH WE SPEAK WHEN WE SPEAK | 414 |
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